You don't care if they are all murdered.

Any man among you--any man, I say--would step out before those howling fiends and boldly demand that there be no bloodshed.

A courageous leader with a band of determined followers could avert this tragedy.

You might readily intimidate yonder horde of drunken demons.

Captain Williamson, I am only a minister, far removed from a man of war and leader, as you claim to be, but, sir, I curse you as a miserable coward.